i just got an fd3s and the center consul is always hot, i think its heat from trany, is that normal for rx7?

 

Auto or manual ? Try changing the tranny oil.

 

what mods do you have?. also get the precat off and put a down pipe on the car it will get a lot of heat out of the engine bay.

Jeff

 

Mine is always hot and I have a manual tranny and a downpipe so i just figured it was normal.

 

The center console tends to get hot in these cars. The rotary is thermally inefficient by nature and the restrictive stock exhaust with the precat makes matters works. Ditch the precat and replace it with a quality downpipe. On my old car I also pulled up the center console and the carpet under it and put down some adhesive heat barrier.

 

yea i got full titanium exhaust and down pipes and high flow cat... its a 5speed.... any one know wher i could get tranny oil cooler or some thing to bring down the heat???

 

You can buy coolers from places like Summit Racing, Jegs, Racer Parts Wholesale, etc.. However, I'm not sure if you'll need a pump or not to make it truely effective.

The easiest and first thing to try would be to run a good synthetic fluid. In most cases, good synthetic oils drop the operating temperatures to tolerable levels.

 

The other thing to check is the condition of the rubber shift boot. That can age and crack and allow the heat from the transmission to come up underneath the center console.

 

i just took whole interior out and rubber shift boot was ripped up bad, so i turned the car on after i got the boot of man heat from pipes and transmission was just coming like nuts just after idling it for about 2-3 min

 

Because you have an aftermarket cat you probably don't have any heat shielding on it. This plus the fact that your rubber shift boot is torn up will allow the hot air to rise into the tranny tunnel and heat things up. Replace the rubber shift boot and maybe add some insulation there. Heat wrap or jet coating on the downpipe will help a lot, so would adding a heat shield above your cat.

It has nothing to do with the transmission, so don't do anything to that. I've never seen any stock FD 5 speeds that needed a tranny cooler.

 

Also make sure you have all of the insulation for the shifter mechanism:

 

yea thanks this helped out a lot......i am finding out that previous owner didn't know jack **** when he was doing mods to this car as i am learning more about it....not that many thing wrong with the car just what ever he installed was don bad all wiring he did is just hooked up wrong good thing i took dashboard apart.....

 

Heat wrap the DP on back and you'll be cool



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